Santo Antão Island competitions

Football or soccer competitions had and have taken part in the island of Santo Antão. The island championship existed for nine years. The single island cup and super cup competitions were introduced in late 2015. The cup and super cup are held along with two other regional versons. The opening tournament is a single island competition.

Santo Antão Island Championships

Santo Antão Island League/Championships
Region Cape Verde Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde
Promotion to Cape Verdean Football Championship
Current champions Sanjoanense (1st time)
Most championships Solpontense (4 times)

The Santo Antão Island Championships was a regional championship that played in all of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde until 2002 when it was split up into two present-day divisions of Ribeira Grande and Porto Novo, though it was split up in 1998 but it continued for four years before the final split up, in 1999 and 2000, only a single match occurred as the winner of the south competed with the winner of the north. The winner of the championship had played in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. The championships were restored in the 2001 season and continued without the north and south zones for two more years.

The island league was formed in 1993 and was the shortest existed island leagues up to its breakup in 2002.

Winners

Performance by club

Club Winners Winning Years
Solpontense Futebol Clube 4 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001
Rosariense Clube 2 1994, 1995
Associação Académica do Porto Novo 1 1997
Sanjoanense (Porto Novo) 1 2002

Santo Antão Super Cup

The first ever single island super cup took place in December. The matches started at the semi-finals with a single match then the winner headed to the finals. The champion winner of the south competes with the winner of the north, another bracket features a cup winner (sometimes second place) of the south competes with the cup winner of the north instead of having the super cup winner of the south with the super cup winner of the north. As champion of the south zone, Académica of Porto Novo won two titles in 2015 and in 2016.

Winners

Participant history

Santo Antão Cup

The first ever single island cup began competition in January 2016. Several clubs compete in the competition instead of a cup winner from north or south. The winner was Lajedos

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